infringe
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
2=bʰregPlease see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.
Borrowed from Latin infringere (“to break off, break, bruise, weaken, destroy”), from in (“in”) + frangere (“to break”).
Pronunciation
Verb
infringe (third-person singular simple present infring, present participle ing, simple past and past participle infringed)
- (transitive) Break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc.
- 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
- According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
- (intransitive) Break in or encroach on something.
Synonyms
(Break or violate a treaty, a law): transgress
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc.
|
Further reading
- “infringe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “infringe”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “infringe”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) īnfringe
Portuguese
Verb
infringe
Spanish
Verb
infringe
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English terms with quotations
- English intransitive verbs
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin verb forms
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish verb forms
- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ir